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Right after you were born, the blood and vernix on your body was washed off by a nurse or even your mom or dad. Have you taken a bath or shower since the day you were born? Of course you have. Our bodies continually become dirtied, requiring new cleansing. It...
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The gospel is a message of life, of nourishing, of filling. Because of Christ's work in our behalf, we are set free from sin, adopted into God's family, welcomed in. The "word of truth, the gospel of your salvation" (Eph. 1:13) is a word that gives life. And the great privilege we have when we gather with other believers—other obnoxious believers, other theologically imprecise believers, other spiritually sleepy believers, other frustrating believers, other sinning believers—is of passing on horizontally a taste of what we’ve been given vertically. Amid all my sin and messiness, in Jesus, God has given me a word of welcome, a word of love—"the word of life" (Phil. 2:16; 1 John 1:1). Loved with this word of grace, I love others with words of grace.
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The New Testament gives us some broad principles on how we are supposed to respond to government. For example, Romans 13 elaborates on the origin and institution of government as something that God ordains.
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"First, the holy Christian people are recognized by their possession of the holy word of God." Luther always returned to the foundational importance of the Scriptures and the gospel in his approach to any doctrinal question. The church must have and cherish the revelation of God.
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The year is soon ending. The need for trustworthy Bible teaching isn’t—it’s actually growing. That’s encouraging to me. Why? Because it means you and I have the opportunity to be used of God to make an eternal impact. Together, we can extend to people the life-changing truth of God’s Word.
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Jesus addresses the question of who is and is not genuinely saved in His parable of the sower (Matt. 13:1–9). It is important to note the context of this famous parable. Just before it, someone says to Jesus, "Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You" (Matt. 12:47, NASB). But Jesus answers, "Who is My mother and who are My brothers?" (v. 48, NASB).
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